Evening Star Newspaper, August 6, 1931, Page 1

PURPOSE OFFLEAT OF PR CRANEN Tells ' Why Pilot Flew to Greenland. i PLANE WILL TAKE-OFF FOR REYKJAVIK TODAY| Hop From Canada Over North Atlantic Route Unknown Until Craft Had Landed. By the Assoclated Press. g N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 Ente s d class matter Possame, %..«..._.m D. ¢ GANG ‘TARGET’ USED CHILD 'AS SHIELD, HE TELLS POLICE {Intended Viectim-of Volley WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Star WASHINGTON, D. €, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1931—FORTY-SIX PAGES. »s» I Which Took \ ‘ORDERS' ERMANY 080 00 BALES 0F b 000 One Life and Fetled Four Other |[OTTON FROM U. S, Youngsters Tells Amazing Story. | By tne Assoclated Press, . NEW YORK, August 6.—Tony Trobing, admitting that he was the intended target of the gangland bullels that killed one child and wounded four others | in Harlem's Little Italy, told an amaging story to police today of how he used the hody of a little child as & human shield from the leadén spray. The admission was made to a detective whose identity was not made public. Short] ‘Trobino was dered without ball, and missioner Mulrooney refused has “valuable information.’ ‘Trobino is said to have a tha According to the admission to the de- tective, Trobino sald he was sitting in an automobile in Harlem when the gangsters started to fire from their au- tomobile. Felgning a wound, he opened the doof,‘:; h{a car and crawled along the sidewalk to ul'.heu & group of little chil- dren were playing. Then, Trobino ssid, as the gangsters’ car approached the spot to Which he had crawled, he grabbed a little boy - {and held him up as a human shield. b burst A spray of bullets forth from the Vengalli, car, little Michael wounding four other children who had ‘been playing in the vicinity, but harm- to break, except for the terse admission the prisoner "admittdd to the detective that he was a member of narcotic ring recently split up by civil war, and that the word had gone out t the faction of which Trobino was a follower was going to have trouble. teghnical ¢harge of robbery, or- by.‘n.wm of silence which Police Com- ing neither himself nor the boy he held in front of him, he sald. ‘When the gangsters’ ear put on full speed after the wounded children began to scream, Trobino said, he dropped the boy, ran over to the automobile in which he had been sitting, and drove away. After recelving Trobino's statement. police were sald to be searching for Vineent Coll, whom Trobino named as leader of the rival narcotic gang; & Rock, who ers said ‘had become an enemy of Coll in , and Nicholas “Buil- 8’ Martello, whose car, Trobino sald, was driving the day of the shooting. is said to be an enemy of “Dutch” =2 1. PLANES MAY ‘Hudson RACE OVER PACIFIC Lindbergh Held at Aklavik by Bad Weather Near Point Barrow. with a large cash award await- ‘winner, appeared as & possibility { By the Associated Press. i | LONDON, August 6.-—Lord Reading, flowers, and many friends of !: couple the ceremony. Miss Charnaud wore a long gown of dark blue romaine and a close-fitting hat. She carried 8 bouquet of dark red roses. After the ceremony they drove to Parker D. "!Mrty;ocnme.r. one of 's ploneers, who now nfim&- e third time to cross way of Greenland and Ice- land, | d a colorful career, marked (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) U. S. VICE CONSUL DIES Death Ends Long Service George B. Starbuck in Cuba. of George B. Starbuek, Ameriean vice con- { today, as most of the motorme i conductors n remained on strike (n pro- | lof | STRIKE IS UNSOLVED Trolley Cars Continue to Operate Part-Time in Havana. HAVANA, August 6 (. —Trolley’car sérvice continued in partial operation and inst wage cuts. Busses and aga! taxicabs provided the principal means strike has resulted many yeass. died yesterday. | violence in the last two days. OLD LADIES, IDEALISTS, BIGOTS AND REDS ROUSE PRINCE’S IRE! Stella - ud, his secretary, in the dingy | office on Princes row. { plane | glm bad been transformed with and | B, emcutive order ROCPS UNOPPOSED Court Upholds Oklahoma Pro- ration Law, Under Which Governor Acted. By the Associated Fress. OKLAHOMA CITY, August 6.—Quiet spread over the major part of Okla- | TULSA, Okla., August 6 office of Harry F. Blnu‘d:k, - has issued a y tha The company, cited by Murray in ' Okishoma wells under martial law in an effort to_eresse crude oil prices, stated it portant fraciion”™ “ an unim is the one 7) | of State the Go LONG SERMON IS FATAL “Yet our (Continued on Page Colored Woman Evangelist Col-| ; mentioned (by | | lapses After Preaching 8 Hours. | home she y Toute and Death was attributel fo heart | By Cable to The star. BERLIN, N CLOSNG VELLS Sackett Transmits Definite Offer for Farm Board | Holdings to Washington. ALSO SEEKS OPTION ON 200,000 ADDITIONAL BALES Price to Be Based on Average of New York, Liverpool and Bremen Markets. Germany, August 6.—A definite offer from the German govern- ment to buy 600,000 bales of American cotton now in the hands of the Federal Farm Board, plus an option on 200,000 bales more, was transmitied to Wash- ington last night by Ambassador Fred- eric M. Sackett, and the Germand are g for an answer. The price contemplated for the cot| ton is not the 11 cents s pound origi- ally mentioned, but either the average New York price over the next thres months or an average computed on the New York, Liverpool and Bremen boards offer for the German terms (Copyright. .931.) BAILEY OFFERS PROTEST. : £ ! i § | 3 { ¥ 8, b j E i ‘| GERMANY’S BANKING SITUATION IMPROVES Deposits in 450 Reichsbank Branches Mount fo 86,000,000. Million Marks Withdrawn., By the Associated Pres BERLIN, August 6.—Business Te- wained ncrmal todey, as banks re- for the second day Of unre- payments, afier having Jeen closed for three weeks, as an emergency measure of protection. > The 450 bragghes of the Reichsbark rflt«l yestefday's withdrawals to- taled only 1/900,000 marks, while the depcsits moudited to 8,000,00. 1,000,000.000 marks in new. bank which ths Reichsbank held ready demand by private banks was touched. - B L ’ ' The situation is now regarded as so favorable that sa banks may be nq-ned'urunn'::udb\mnuzon Saturday instead of on Monday. 10-YEAR-OLD BOY' HELD FOR SLAYING OF SHERIFF | | Youth Fires From Behind Barrel Wher Caught in Act of Robbing Store. | By the'Associated Press. | died. | disease. MELLON GETS PASSAGE . =~ "The iner wi can State school, NEARING NET Beat Reese and Yeomans in South- ampton Invitation Tour- nament. B7 the Ausociated Press. OUTHAMPTON, N. * Yesterday's Circulation, 106,694 TWO CENTS:-- ‘ P Means Associated Press.. Those Under 16. UNFAIR COMPETITION JIN EMPLOYMENT SEEN State mmum‘ Anthorities to Be Asked to Aid Campaign. A movement, Nation-wide in scope: kesp the youth of America in. sth ™ CIRCUS TROUPERS TIGHTEN BELTS AS Legion to Stage Benefit Show Tonight for| Stranded Employes of 101 Ranch, Wild West Show. Four hundred and twenty-five sirand- MEALS RUN LOW| ness, and their officials put it up to the management —no pay, no music. whén it un‘:e, Was | | | Ten Per Cent Gain Shown " Over Normal Number. for Season. 7 the Assoclated Press. » NEW YORK, August 6.—Jobn R. ‘Young, manager of the Convention Bu- reau of the Merchants’ Association of New York, announced today that the flow of buyers into New York City has increased &t least 10 per cent tatl year over the normal mumber of 40,000 for this time of the season. All Actually Buying. “And what is more significant,” he added, “they ars all actualiy buying.” “They are selecting more carefull it is true, and some are buying a little | more frugally perhaps, but the fact re. mains that th:y are buying, depression M e “Young Botnbed out: tbat, prior to . You oul P "ar. A and Februa the World War, ry were peak lof the visiting of out-of-town buyers, but after the war there was a tendency v spread buying visits throughout the year. Pendulum Returning. ‘The pendulum is swi hases for ghe following seasons, Young said. w:c .- ERUPTION BURIES TEN IN LANDSLIDE Mexican Mountain, Believed Non- Voleanic, Breaks Into Action and Traps- Residents at Base. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, August 6.—Ten per- sons were buried under “tons of .dirt when Mount Tlanapa, heretofore con- back again | to August and Pebruary for the heavisst | g5, 'Seabury Deglines to Discuss| Bank’s Subpoena—Denies Curry Inquiry. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, August 6.—Sarauel Sea. bury, counsel to the Hofstadter Legisla- tive Committee, today refused to discuss & report that he had subpoensed the bank and brok:rage a‘counts of Mayor James J. Walker. At the same time, Mr. Seabury posi- tively denled a report that the bank ac- counts of John F. Curry, leader of Refused to Discuss. The question as to whether the may- ‘s bank accounts had been naed o O H al woul not discuss the matter. b Meanwhile it was learned that in the | Inquiry into the police t to find out what means in this city. |“AMOS 'N. ANDY” BAN | SOUGHT BY ATTORNEY Pitisburgher Says He Has Petition Bearing 200,000 Signatures to Present to Radio Commission. . | City yesterday by Federal prohibition | agents,' who_ ‘arrested agents of Vino . | Sano, Ine., at_their store on Fifth ave- | Tammany Hall, have been subpo-naed. |" | _ TRENTON. | Brady, 72, Washington, Seabury plans the flm have of keeping track of | Ni L R g, .| Army Aviator Escapes From Flane| . SEEN AS LAW TEST Prohibition Agents Seize Product That Turns . to Wine.. Seigure of wine bricks in New York o secretary of the M. nue, raises fine points of eni ~ point the Jaw, :hel':: ""vnllelh’uummk 0 on Page 3, Caliimn 4) FOUR FROM WASHINGTON INJURED IN CAR CRASH Howard Brady and ‘Wife Hurt Se- riously in Trenton Wreck—J. J. Penirey of Capital Is Arrested. By the Associated Press. - 3 August &—Howard I (Continued fiifi 2 £ %} : g | ] i ; 2 E 2 éz | i BI | § (] 2 P FLYER LEAPS TO SAFETY With Wrenched Shgulder. MT. ), h., . R o, 3. coms Pursuit 6P — mapder § I i i i - ;